Dazzlingly white, perfectly aligned … and now with a touch of glamour: New York cosmetic dentists are offering smiles fit for a movie star. Recently, a semi-permanent prothesis — known as ”snap-in veneers” — has become available. Made of resin, the veneers are placed over patients’ teeth, allowing them to flash teeth like those of their favourite actor or actress.
Londoners were gritting their teeth for the return to work on Monday even as police searched crumpled underground train wreckage for clues to track the terror bombers, spurred by fear of a new attack. The police said 49 bodies have been hauled out of the four blast sites, and said they hoped to find no more.
The Johannesburg municipality says that essential services won’t be affected by Tuesday’s strike as it is putting contingency plans in place to minimise disruptions. South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) spokesperson Chichi Selepe has warned that essential services will be affected by the protest.
A potential strike action by over 190Â 000 workers in the steel and engineering industry has been averted, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa said on Monday. This comes after workers in the industry overwhelmingly agreed to accept an offer of 6,8% for lowest paid grades and 5,2% for highest paid grades.
Jamaica and South Africa drew 3-3 on Sunday, joining the United States and Costa Rica in the quarterfinals of the Concacaf Gold Cup while Mexico beat Guatemala 4-0 to recover from its upset loss to the Bafana Bafana two days earlier. Honduras also clinched a quarterfinal berth, beating Colombia 2-1 in Miami to hand the South Americans their second loss.
The African National Congress has finally acted against conflict of interest and potential corruption in its ranks by adopting a policy that bars public officials from working for the private sector in an area where they had been active in government. At the national general council in Pretoria, the party adopted a ”cooling-off period” resolution.
It was a new kind of story. Not in the sense of what happened, which was thoroughly and depressingly as anticipated, but in the way it was reported and disseminated. The mobile phone photographers, the text messagers and the bloggers – a new advance guard of amateur reporters had the London bomb story in the can before the news crews got anywhere near the scene.
Nasa controllers on Sunday night set the countdown clock ticking to the first shuttle flight since the Columbia disaster. Crew safety has become the priority of the national space agency in the two and a half years since seven astronauts were lost when Columbia blew apart during re-entry over Texas.
So there’s this Indian chap who goes to dog training with us on Sundays when everyone else is in church. His wife, who is not Indian, sends him there. She has put him on the 20-week dog training course to punish him for his regular Saturday night binges, which leaves him with a Sunday morning hangover and what one might politely call dog breath.
Hurricane Dennis sent Gulf coast residents fleeing on Sunday, but spared the region the worst of the predicted devastation after it weakened shortly before landfall. The hurricane, which left 32 people in Haiti and Cuba dead, arrived in Alabama and northwestern Florida packing 192kph winds, pounding the beachfronts in an area that was hit by Hurricane Ivan just 10 months ago.